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  • From: "Ed Delgado" <delinfo AT home.com>
  • To: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Can FreeTDS help me with my Sybase interface problem
  • Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 20:19:32 -0500


Also, can you steer me in the right direction regarding more info on SQSH??

Thanks Again...

Ed

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-freetds-85422 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
> [mailto:bounce-freetds-85422 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu]On Behalf Of Brian
> Bruns
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 1999 2:50 PM
> To: TDS Development Group
> Subject: [freetds] Re: Can FreeTDS help me with my Sybase interface
> problem
>
>
>
> FreeTDS will allow a Unix box to run selects against any server
> that uses TDS (Sybase SQL Server, Syabase Rep Server, an OpenServer
> application, Microsoft SQL Server, etc...). It can be used from C using
> db-lib or ct-lib, from Java using FreeTDS/JDBC, from Perl by compiling
> sybperl against freetds, and has been reported to work (to lesser or
> greater degree) with sybtcl and php3. For simple shell scripting SQSH
> compiled against freetds provides a nice way to get the data (sqsh allows
> turning off headers/footers and other niceities).
>
> That said, the number of unix boxes it has been run on is actually
> somewhat low. It is known to run under Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris (with
> varying amounts of success), and I have run it under AIX and Digital Unix
> 4.0 (although not recently). On the other hand, if you want to try it on
> HP-UX I'd be happy to provide any assistance I could.
>
> Brian
>
> On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Ed Delgado wrote:
>
> > I am working on a project that involves interfacing to multiple Sybase
> > instances. My Client will be running on a UNIX server (HPUX
> 10.20 and/or
> > Digital UNIX 4.0). I just need to capability to perform simple SELECT
> > statements. Can the FreeTDS project help me in any way???
> >
> >
>
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